European Alliance for Innovation

EAI - European Alliance for Innovation

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Founded	2010
Type	Professional Community
Focus	Internet of Things, eHealth, Smart city, Applications for future internet
Headquarters	Ghent, Belgium
Method	Community, Conferences, Summits, Publications
Members	ICST,[1] Fraunhofer FOKUS,[2] INNOVA,[3] Create-Net,[4] Mobicap,[5] Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja,[6] STU,[7] EUREC,[8] Microsoft Israel R&D Center, IBM Israel
President	Imrich Chlamtac
Website	www.eai.eu

European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) is an international professional community and a nonprofit organization. The goal of EAI is to empower the global ICT research and innovation community, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.^[9]

The headquarters of EAI is located in Ghent, Belgium. Other offices are located in the Slovak Republic, Germany and the United States.^[10] The office in Bratislava was created in cooperation with the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.^[11]

The organisation was founded by professor Imrich Chlamtac in 2010 and currently EAI has over 150.000 subscribers globally.^[12]

The company organizes events and conferences and provides support for the members, trying to improve the rate at which innovations reach the market.

Publication activities

EAI publishes scientific magazines and journals through its own community-driven publication platform called European Union Digital Library (EUDL).^[13] For online publications EAI uses its e-Scripts system,^[14] while EUDL houses a database of peer reviewed scientific publications.

Event activities

EAI organizes over 70 conferences and summits every year.^[15] These include:

• MOBIQUITOUS^[16] - 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
• BROADNETS^[17] - 9th EAI International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems
• WISATS^[18] - 7th EAI International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Systems
• INTETAIN^[19] - 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
• MOBIMEDIA^[20] - 8th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications
• CROWNCOM^[21] - 10th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks
• INISCom^[22] - 1st International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
• ICSON^[23] - First International Conference on Self-Organizing Networks
• Science and Solutions for a Sustainable Environment Conference 2014^[24]
• VALUETOOLS^[25] - 8th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
• BICT^[26] - 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies
• 5GU^[27] - 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity
• GAMENETS^[28] - 5th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks
• IoT360 Hackathon^[29]
• IoT360 Summer School^[30] - International IoT360 Summer School on the Internet of Things

Collaborations

The European Alliance for Innovation has set up strong collaboration and a strategic partnership with the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA).

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